One day last April, Damien Fair chuckled along with the members of his 30-person lab at their monthly lunch meeting as he attempted to maneuver a bowl of soup, a plate of salad and a pair of crutches all at the same time. The associate professor of behavioral neuroscience at Oregon Health and Scienc…

"I think in many ways we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange..."Source: The Autism Site

This is despicable.Source: The Autism Site

Trained in cognitive neuroscience, Gabriela Rosenblau is also an expert on a more mundane topic: office furniture. When she was hired in August as assistant professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., the thrill of setting up her new lab was quickly flattened by an unexpected chal…

It took five years for doctors to finally find the real problem.Source: The Autism Site

"He had a confirmed sprain in one of his wrists. In the days following, he suffered swelling and bruising around his wrist."Source: The Autism Site

By Christa Holmans, Neurodivergent Rebel I found out that I was autistic at the age of twenty-nine. The Psychologist who diagnosed me recommended I read the works of autistic authors and seek out other autistic adults in order to help me to better understand autism and how it related to myself. She …

A variety of genetic risk factors for autism disrupt some of the same processes in cells, two new studies suggest1,2. Both studies used the DNA-editing tool CRISPR to mutate genes with ties to autism. In one of the studies, researchers grew neurons from human stem cells lacking any of 10 genes impli…

If you opened a sliding door and entered a space with soft blankets, pillows, multicolored lights, speakers and air conditioning, where do you think you would be? If you answered “my personal heaven”, we may consider that as the right answer but we are really talking about a little po…

These babies conversing in "twin speak" will make your heart melt!Source: The Autism Site

What would you do if you found this note in your mailbox?Source: The Autism Site

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Molecules from alpacas may enable scientists to identify cell types in the brain while also revealing their interior structures1. The method may help researchers better visualize how the brain is wired in autism. Researchers often stain tissue with fluorescent antibodies to certain proteins so they …

Staff's treatment of the service dog is in violation of B.C. law.Source: The Autism Site